more science "journalism" to beat your head against

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/02/03/worst-science-article-of-the-week-beware-of-loose-wives-with-large-chins/

Comments

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

LOL SKIENCE.

Reminding women that we are wrong, whatever we look like.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

The thing that bugs me is ... I followed a link about cheating and some of the studies put people having sexual relationships outside their primary one reached 76% and only as low as 41% (setting aside the fact I'm not sure the studies were well done) and doesn't a 76% rate of sleeping iwth more than one partner suggest not a 76% devation from some norm but that perhaps having only one sex partner at a time *is* the devation from the norm?

They had to try ane explain it by some semi-bogus psychological disorder.

[thornsilver]

Punishment for unsubstantiated pseudo-scientific crap, should be stocks. Then I can throw rotten vegetables at them. (What? I can dream!)

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Actually, the problem to me looks more like bad stats--the science journalist is justifiably critical of the study (well, I suppose the other articles linked to are not so critical...but I think the Discover blogger should get props for not being stupid).

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The statistic that I'd really be interested in seeing is the ratio of studies on sexuality &/or gender that were remotely well done to the ratio that were statistically ludicrous pieces of crap done to attempt to support someone's idea of inherent social norms. I fear that fraction would look something like 1/20.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[jo02]

It was too difficult to *headdesk* and keep reading, so I stopped reading.
It seemed the less painful thing to do.
As lefaym said, "skience" ...
Skigh.

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

Oh, bother.

She gave an interview for InStyle wherein she succinctly mentioned that Quaid was cheating on her and the marriage was already over when she started seeing Russell Crowe. She also mentioned that she didn't think to go into this detail with the media because, hey, she and Quaid have a kid together and she didn't want to drag his dad through the mud.

What a bunch of misogynistic garbage.

[arcanetrivia]

Well I always knew my squarish jaw was a problem, but I didn't think it was this problem...

[sethg]

There are so many reasons why a person might cheat (or why they might resist the temptation to cheat) that I'm not sure how to define "norm". Categorizing the behavior simply along the axis of "cheat/don't cheat" seems like it would be missing so much relevant detail as to be useless.